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...article in Harvard Magazine that month, Mansfield was quoted as saying, "Grade inflation coincided with the arrival of large numbers of Black students on the Harvard campus; many white professors were unwilling to give C's to Black students, so they wouldn't give C's to white students...
...Mansfield's comments drew the debate out of the genteel world of academic disputes and into the fray of student activism. At first, students mulled the remarks and waited for clarification, but a month later, their reaction was dramatic...
Black Students Association (BSA) President Zaheer R. Ali '94 wrote to The Crimson and a number of Harvard authorities March 2, calling on Harvard to either substantiate or apologize for Mansfield's remarks, which he called "Eurocentric [and] white supremacist-informed...
...lack of an official response to Mansfield's comments demonstrated "Harvard's conditioning to accept and acquiesce to racism," Ali wrote. "It also reflects the degree to which racism at Harvard is institutionalized," he wrote, and he said the BSA "demands that the administration respond to Mansfield's comments, either supporting his allegations or denying them...
Both said they found no evidence to support Mansfield's link between Black student enrollment and higher marks for students, and Rudenstine linked grade inflation to the general atmosphere of the University in the turbulent Vietnam era and the competitive years thereafter...